Parents

21st Century Learning

A partnership with Contact Community Services, the Paving R Way program at Lincoln Middle School in Syracuse provides academic/tutorial assistance, recreation, performing arts, health and mental health services, career exploration, and case management services. Participating youth in Paving R Way strengthen their academic abilities, develop social and life skills, increase their self-awareness, strengthen and develop protective factors, and experience the stability of a caring community of peers and adults.

A Children’s Consortium Family Educator provides case management and works with the parents, the school, and other agencies in the youth’s life to provide parent/child activities, trainings on identified needs (such as career skills) and intensive family literacy services for 10 -15 percent of participant families. A goal of the program is for parents of Paving R Way youth to strengthen their connection to the school and become more involved in their children’s education. Using the Even Start Family Literacy Program as a model, the family educator builds on the strengths of the family and supports them through scheduled home visits focused on the core components of family literacy:

• parenting education
• interactive parent-child literacy education
• youth education
• referral to adult education, when appropriate

For more information about this program, please call us at (315) 471-8331 or email Janice Timmons, 21st Century Community Learning Center Family Educator at jtimmons@childrensconsortium.org.

Watch the Paving R Way music video to learn what the program means to participants: